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by brainwad 3mo ago
The specific problem with Maps is that Google _can't_ deep link to other providers except by lat-lng or address, both of which throw away the actual context of the PoI in the common case of searching for PoIs. Well, it could perhaps de
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by brainwad 3mo ago
The EU just finds a new thing to fine each time. Since the scope of US consumer internet companies is so vast, they can mine €1b fines more or less limitlessly.
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by brainwad 3mo ago
It's not like they can sell the SPCX stock. It's still locked up.
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by brainwad 3mo ago
If the inference gets an order of magnitude cheaper, labs can afford to subsidise an order of magnitude more usage for the same marketing cost. So that part of usage will, if not accelerate with efficiency, at least still grow linearly with
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by brainwad 3mo ago
Or: increasing resource efficiency may encourage even more usage, as happened with coal, oil and photovoltaics.
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by brainwad 3mo ago
Not at scale. Charities only can move so much merchandise themselves, because only a small slice of the population goes to charity shops and/or accepts charitable donations. Allllso maybe the junk that is trashed by Zara is just junk t
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by brainwad 3mo ago
A bunch of those industries are unprofitable, or profitable only due to unsustainable subsidies from their local governments.
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by brainwad 3mo ago
Most (all?) good novels are propaganda designed to influence your thinking. If a machine could truly provoke thoughts as well as a human author, then yeah it'd be worth reading its work, too.
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by brainwad 3mo ago
People don't usually count reading an online piece of writing as equivalent to reading a book, even if the exact same content could also be in book form. Hence if you ask speakers of a language with a lot of available online reading ma
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by brainwad 3mo ago
Is that understanding also cross-culturally consistent? That's a typical failure mode in comparative surveys between different countries - the meaning of the question depends on the translation used in each language. I imagine here the
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by brainwad 3mo ago
What's a book, though? I suppose people would at least count a traditional e-book. Does long-form fanfic count? How about a book-length website? What about one that was originally published as a book and then republished online?
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by brainwad 3mo ago
We were also taught the french style, but only for use in algebra (normal print x is too close to ×).
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by brainwad 3mo ago
FWIW, when Windows NT was ported to mobile it also was compiled against binary blobs for specific Qualcomm SoCs. It's not an Android deficiency; what works on PCs just doesn't really work in mobile-land.
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by brainwad 3mo ago
Google is the good actor here. 7 years of updates, unlocked bootloader, support for LineageOS, etc. The reason it sucks is all the other OEMs who don't care about anything other than the current year's models.
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by brainwad 3mo ago
There are such: Macrons are required in the Māori language, and probably other Polynesian languages written with Latin script.
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by brainwad 3mo ago
I write it with a descending curve, then go back and cross it with an ascending diagonal line when crossing t's / dotting i's/j's. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cel3GtSOzow . I think tha
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by brainwad 3mo ago
Windows for ages did not really keep all the code in one repo. There were like a dozen parallel repos for e.g. the shell, kernel, IE, etc. Also every feature was developed on team-level branches; integrating all those branches often caused
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by brainwad 3mo ago
In Google the ads are at least segregated from normal results, like for web search.
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by brainwad 3mo ago
There are also all the free services that just build goodwill. Those are the most at risk. Of course the "ad carriers" are treated better, since again money is on the line. But any non-essential. feature thereof is also potentiall
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by brainwad 3mo ago
Google would say they aren't preferencing their product. They are preferencing the merchants who actually sell the products over middlemen who try to extract rents from said merchants. Because they put free links to merchants' pro
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by brainwad 3mo ago
It's not all ads. Indeed it's mostly not.
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by brainwad 3mo ago
I don't really think of showing rich shopping results as preferring "Google's product". It's just showing links to merchants in a fancier UI. It's fundamentally still search, linking out to 3rd party websites.
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by brainwad 3mo ago
But is searching for products a new product line, or just a natural extension of searching for webpages (many of which are about products)? Where do you draw the line between merely improving the monopoly product and abusing the monopoly?
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by brainwad 3mo ago
IMO the fines do have an effect - Google now withholds a lot of launches from the EU, sometimes temporarily until they have time to have lawyers check them against DMA requirements, but mostly permanently. Ironically the part of Google most
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by brainwad 3mo ago
This is not a problem in other western countries, so why would it be in the US? It sounds very much like post-hoc justification to me.
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by brainwad 3mo ago
GCP has wild YoY earnings growths and it has accelerated since cloud AI became a thing. AI is finally bringing Google a real second line of business besides ads.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
This only works if you can force every state to do it, lest naive states be defenseless against those that don't disarm. But any such compulsion would be self-terminating, and thus unstable. Why not just do it all? Fund the military an
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by brainwad 4mo ago
So long as the benefit:cost ratio is still sufficiently high, I don't think anyone gets fired for not scrimping. Better to encourage positive EV behaviour by your employees than to scare them away by firing them for not being perfectly
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by brainwad 4mo ago
Yep, my European apartment has been heated with waste heat from a nearby data centre since 2013: https://eicher-pauli.ch/referenzen/ewz-waermeverbund-binz-zu...
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by brainwad 4mo ago
Why would it? Stock compensation doesn't affect cash flow, it just dilutes the shareholders.

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